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Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Spandex Heroes?

Lent began as a training season. Reactions to training, like diets, often focus on “how?” The real question is “what for?” What image do we have of ourselves as the people and disciples we are, and would like to be? Here, to help us tame and train our fantasies about ourselves, are some ordinary wannabe New American Gladiators...

Notice how lack of peripheral vision has prevented the D-cup Toupée gentleman spotting his own need of a bra...

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Child of God by adoption and grace, husband of Lucy, father of five, jumped-up vicar (Area Bishop of Buckingham).
Born Edinburgh. Deacon 1979, Priest 1980, Bishop 2003. Cambridge MA, Oxford DPhil — ‘I am a doctor, but not the kind that helps people.’ I trained for ordained ministry at Wycliffe Hall. I have worked in various C of E contexts, urban and suburban, as well as in prison.